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OVERHEARD IN THE schoolyard last week at the Flint Hill Elementary School in Vienna, Virginia, as a six-year-old introduced a pal to her parents...
...decorous, resonant three-hour memory film, distilled from a six-hour TV mini-series. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a theology student who, it is said, "needs someone to love, so he won't hate himself so much." Anna (Pernilla Ostergren) is a bourgeois princess who finds flint beneath her gentility as she learns to love -- and forces herself to stay with -- this difficult man as he establishes his ministry in a small town. She must find comfort in moments of domestic grace: a chat with her loving father (Max von Sydow), a caress of her pregnant belly by Henrik...
Nelson grew up in Flint, Michigan, a blue-collar automobile city whose decline was vividly documented in the film Roger and Me." She attended magnet public high school in Flint, and her experiences there helped spark her interest at Harvard...
Nelson says that her work with the admissionsoffice has been particularly important to her.Each of the last three years, she has spent a weekin the fall at home in Detroit and Flint as aminority recruiter in area high school, "As muchas I have criticism about this place, I probablywould not have gone anywhere else," Nelson says."I feel like I have a responsibility to go backand share what I have experienced here...
...fire from the company's unions and the communities whose futures are now very much in doubt. The most emotionally charged reactions came from Michigan. GM's home base is targeted for half of the first round of 17,000 cutbacks and the closing of an engine plant in Flint and an assembly line in Willow Run in favor of an assembly line in Arlington, Texas. Michigan U.A.W. leaders raised the threat of strikes against further actions. Most industry analysts agree that GM needs to shrink its inflated bureaucracy and underutilized capacity. But is the company quietly crafting another strategy...